Being Women Ruchika Sharma Press Meet

Jessy Naidu Joy of pregnancy &Being Women(ngo) Ruchika Sharma initiative to create awareness to reduce maternal mortality rate in india by conducting awareness program by doing world largest prenatal yoga class event to create history in Hyderabad & india for Creating a new world record of largest prenatal yoga class for Guinness Book of World Records dated on oct 11thtime 7 a.m to 11 a.m. venue: peoples plaza, necklace road, Hyderabad.

Mrs. Jessy Naidu Founder of Joy Of Pregnancy and Parenting in collaboration with Being Woman, an NGO founded by Mrs. Ruchika Sharma [Mrs. South Asia International - 2014) will be attempting a world record in largest pre-natal yoga class.

This event is an initiative to create awareness about maternal mortality among Indian pregnant women.

This initiative aims to break the recent record of 553 Chinese pregnant women as of May 10th 2015. This year, Indians step up to accept this challenge with an aim to break the Chinese world record and create a new history. 1400 pregnant women of Hyderabad will be taking part in this event.

Maternal mortality is unacceptably high in India. About 800 women die from pregnancy or childbirth-related complications around the world every day. In 2013, 289,000 women died during and following pregnancy and childbirth. Almost all of these deaths occurred in low-resource settings and most could have been prevented

INTRODUCTION:

Maternal mortality is unacceptably high in India. About 800 women die from pregnancy or childbirth-related complications around the world every day.

In 2013, 289,000 women died during and following pregnancy and childbirth. Almost all of these deaths occurred in low- resource settings and most could have been prevented according to the World Health Organization (WHO), "A maternal death is defined as death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy, irrespective of the duration and site of pregnancy, from any cause related to or aggravated by pregnancy or its management". Almost half a million women die every year from complications during pregnancy and childbirth.

About 99% of these women are from developing world with over 90% concentrated in Africa and Asia. The current maternal mortality ratio (MMR) in India is 212/100,000 live births.

The tragedy is that these deaths are largely preventable. The progress in maternal health has been uneven, inequitable, and unsatisfactory.

The risk of a woman dying as a result of pregnancy and childbirth during her lifetime is about 1 in 6 in Afghanistan compared with 1 in 30,000 in Northern Europe.

Most of the evidence for maternal mortality is obtained through hospital data and community based reports, which are situated mostly in urban areas, whereas most of the maternal deaths are from rural areas.

This study was done to assess maternal mortality in a tertiary medical college hospital situated in semi urban part of western Maharashtra where large numbers of patients are referred from rural parts of western Maharashtra and North Karnataka. This study was done to assess the local causes of maternal mortality.

Methods:

This was a 10 year retrospective study. Epidemiological data was collected from the hospital register and maternal mortality ratio, epidemiological factors and causes affecting maternal mortality were assessed.


Results:
A total of 120 maternal deaths occurred. Most maternal deaths occurred in the age group of 20-24 years, multiparous women (56.66%), women from rural areas (69.16%), illiterate women (65%), unbooked patients (83.33%), and patients of low socioeconomic status (83.33%). Direct causes accounted for 72.5% of maternal deaths where as 27.5% of maternal deaths were due to indirect causes.

Conclusion:
There is a wide scope for improvement as a large proportion of the observed deaths are preventable.

Maternal deaths can be prevented by improving the health care facilities in rural areas by ensuring round the clock availability of certain basic care.

most maternal deaths in rural areas are still due to eclampsia and post partum hemorrhage. Early detection of high risk pregnancies and referring them to a tertiary center at the earliest can reduce the complications of high risk pregnancies.

National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) can play a major role in reducing maternal mortality by advocating institutional deliveries and timely referral of high risk cases, it would be interesting to direct future studies in this regard.

CONCLUSIONS
Even today most maternal deaths are seen in patients from rural areas, unbooked, illiterate patients and patients from low socioeconomic status. Hemorrhage, Eclampsia and sepsis are the major causes of maternal deaths.

Improvement in primary health care in rural areas and proper implementation of NRHM programs and up gradation of hospitals in rural areas can definitely bring down the number of maternal deaths.

JESSY NAIDU is the certified prenatal yoga trainer who was trained under Rishi samskruthi vidya Kendra, Bangalore (Sri Rishi prabhakar is the founder)
After completing her trainings, she started working in Rural areas near Guntur, vinukonda, Bangalore, pune, hyd in many more villages for pregnant women, with gynaec doctors support

ABOUT RIJCHIKA SHARMA- Being Women is a non-Govt. organization, an NGO Founded by Mrs. Ruchika Sharma (Mrs. South Asia International -2014).

Few of her Laurels include - Mahila Ratna in 2010, Women Achievement Award 2014 By Cowe, Nation Building Award by Union Minister of State Sri Bandaru Dattatreya in 2015 stri shakti award 2015 and many more... She had been invited as a Special Guest for India Day Rally 2014 on float 26 in New York on occasion of Independence Day Celebrations in USA in 2014.

Being women initiative to create road safety awareness was a super duper hit by organizing TELANGAS 1ST WOMENS CAR RALLY.

By organizing worlds largest yoga class for pre natal women we hope to create history &awareness to reduce maternal mortality rate in india.